Explorers Room with Flash Strap:
Playlist
from February 14, 2019

This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

i was with someone who had many tricks up her sleeve in the kitchen, when called for - as i did/do, and we wanted to eat taro for the supposed health benefits; but we never did find a way to make it worthy of our tastebuds.

kava as in "kava kava"? (if so) it was very fashionable in the "health food" industry in the 90s. people were buying "standardized" capsules for anxiety for mucho dinero.
apparently it really works, but you need a lot of it in that form; and my brain & instinct tells me it'd be more effective in a more natural state than a standardized extract.

been reading. wikipedia says poi is not synonymous for taro but a preparation made primarily from taro, and the cooking time is hours.
i think my gf and i cooked it for 20 minutes max. maybe that's why it was so starchy. also we didn't try it in any sweet preparations at all.

I used to try those capsules, @coelacanth∅, either going into or coming out of work at a small mall bookstore. they didn't seem to work for me. later, I visited my friend in south florida, who was in rehab. they hung out at this dark, tropical cafe that served it in wooden bowls

passiflora i knew 2 rattly people who used it. one i worked with at the store so he got it wholesale, and his friend -so, same...if i remember correctly they each took at least 10 caps/day. (which at wholesale was probably close to $10./day, and maybe not too good for the liver)
but they both swore it worked; and it seemed to.

i have always thought the isolation of the "active ingredient" in herbs/foods was bullshit. it makes sense to me that there'd be cofactors present in the plant that work together with the supposed active ingredient - that get left behind in these preparations.
there may be exceptions of course, but i'd sooner try the kava drink.

Been listening on the car, just got home. I listen on a clock radio in the office, sometimes when I listen in the car I'm struck by what beautiful sounding recordings these are. Specifically, the Johnny Pineapple was beautifully recorded stereo. The Smeck, which sounded mono to me w also a great recording!.

okay, i bookmarked it. the other thing is -will i go through the trouble to learn something new in the kitchen if it's just for me? (as you have a self-imposed shrimp embargo i have a self-imposed relationship embargo)